Remember way back when Media Molecule and Sony were running that whole "Design a Sackboy" contest? Apparently a couple of the entrants to this contest believe that Sony/Media Molecule may have stolen their ideas without proper credit. There has been a thread started at the official European forums that you can find here.
Several entrants within this thread have posted their contest entries side-by-side costumes that Sony released last week as paid downloadable content. Some of the entries seem to be strikingly similar. While the opinion seems to teeter between it being alright or coincidence, check out the link and decide for yourself.
A Sony representative had this to say regarding the issue.
"This was always going to be a possibility when we ran the costumer competition – releasing new costumes which are similar in theme to ones that were entered. Here’s the fact of the matter, the art team who are responsible for designing new original (ie unlicensed) costumes were involved at the very final stage of judging, by which time the number of entries had been whittled down to 10 from each batch of entries (Europe, Japan, USA). If at any time we take inspiration from a costume competition entry that didn’t win overall we will contact the creator directly."
It sounds plausible and very reasonable that out of the thousands upon thousands of entrants there is bound to be a duplicate of one the design team had already thought of. Let us know what you guys think below.